The 2014 reunion dinner of my 1957 Marshall, Missouri, high school class closed on a wistful level. Sandra Hilton Bucksath read a poem by classmate Ben Swinger who could not attend. He wrote it in 2002, five years ahead of the fiftieth reunion. I
enjoyed the poem’s humor and insight and called him for permission to
publish it. He did
not title his poem; that’s my

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